Physically speaking, an accident that I was certain was going to result in the loss of my left eye. It took a month and a diligent, patient ophthalmologist just to halt the infection. During that time I was on a variety of drops and ointments dosed as often as hourly (24 times a day over three full days). One of the drops severely burned when applied.

Two times during the first month the pain was so excruciating that I called the doctor in the middle of the night and said I was ready to lose the eye. Somehow he calmed me each time. After the infection was abated I slowly went blind in that eye, but I was assured that was going to happen. After several months a six and a half hour surgery cleared up the matter in my eye and an artificial lens was implanted. Today I feel grateful beyond words that I have good vision in my left eye over 15 years later.

Years of bullying when my family moved out to the county in my youth, almost from day one in small town public school, would be the most intense mental trauma. By high school I began to rise above my tormentors and over the years shed any away they had on me.

Far more brief was the terror of being held at gunpoint in the armed robbery of a pharmacy where I worked in college. The robber herded the staff to the front of the store where his accomplce waited. Once up front we were told to return to the back so they could make their escape. All of this in full view of waiting customers who were vacuously inattentive and complained that they had to wait for their prescriptions when the police arrived to investigate!

I was stranded in an airport for 10 days because of a war.

Waiting for my daughter to come out of open heart surgery is tied with my father’s suicide

foster care

Losing my husband and son in a car crash.

I was literally ran over by a car. Got a compound fracture. I have a titanium rod in my leg for a bone. Changed my entire life forever

Its a tie between the events that lead me to have PTSD, the consequences of not being vigilant with regards to controlling my PTSD with my marriage (almost blew it), and then the home invasion attack here at the farm on the fourth of July 3 years ago.

Losing both parents in the same year

Existing

Started period at school... I Remember asking both parents to stay home since I had the worst stomach ache ever, they both said no. Very embarrassing day

Guy whom I'd seen before tried to break into my house as a child. I had told my parents that a guy keeps driving by watching me. They told me he was probably lost or looking for another house. My parents left myself and my sister home one Saturday. As they were leaving, the man drove by and saw that they were leaving and we were staying. He tried to break in.

Got robbed at gunpoint at the store I was working at at 18.
He got less than 300$ because the manager had just left to deposit the money. It was 20 mine before my shift ended. I quit that day and so did another employee who was coming in to work right after it had happened.

Sex trafficking from a young age by a family member, mostly through pornography.

Gang rape by 5 people with torture included...🤔

When the police came to take me to the hospital. I don’t remember a lot, though.

I was raped by my ex.

Death of my mother I was a grown adult, but hit hard.

Probably all the aggression and manipulation I got from my sister in high school. I know it sounds melodramatic, but that shit was like living in the Twilight Zone.

Crawling to my mates side seeing his mangled legs all bloody after he triggered an IED

idk if this counts but I had nightmares as a kid repeatedly. It was pretty traumatic for me. I thought it was going to happen in real life ☹😔

The car crash that killed my parents even though i don't remember it.

Mental and physical abuse by family and unknown people.

I experienced this twice the second one was worse and it happened like a year ago

i’ve had a few events that i walked away alive from that many don’t.

It’s a toss-up between three different events in my life.

Watching my grandmother pass away.

Kind of a tossup Lost our first son in the second trimester. Divorced in '97 after she said she needed space to recover from body memories of childhood sexual abuse by her older brother. Then there was the death of my girl friend from Ovarian cancer in 2010. Next!

Living with my illnesses brings daily traumas.

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I can't say. Extreme child abuse.

Two years of non stop stalking

Being molested by and a friends father or watching my wife die from cancer.

Betrayal on both the physical and spiritual levels...observing the raw, true nature of people...some of whom claim to be holy men!

Being attacked by a mentally ill guy with a scalpal he'd stolen from a hospital. I fought with him and eventually disarmed him and knocked him unconscious.

That's a very big question..

parenting

Having a broken hip for seven months.

one time i posted a selfie online and i thought it was lit but someone altered it to make me look like a geisha 🥺

Death of my sister

Loss of a friend.

Nothing compared to some of the horrible events others have gone through, but my upbringing wasn’t fun. Growing up with a controlling narcissistic parent fucks with your mental health.

Being sexually abused by my cousins when I was a kid